There is a lot happening in the sky in 2012! There’s the annular eclipse of the Sun on May 20th. There’s the not-again-visible -in-America-until-the-year-2125 Transit of Venus on June 5th. I’ll post entries in the Clark Planetarium blog about those…

We may have passed the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21, when the sun takes its lowest path across the sky) and the “Birthday of the Unconquered Sun” (Dec. 25, when the ancient Romans first noticed the sun’s path climbing higher again),…